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Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

Journal of Adolescent Health
Sexual and reproductive health is a fundamental human right for all people, including adolescents and young adults (AYAs). Sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) encompasses the right to comprehensive, medically accurate, and evidence-based sexual health information and healthcare services, as well as the ability to understand and exercise ...
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Young people's sexual and reproductive health rights

Best Practice & Research Clinical Obstetrics & Gynaecology, 2006
The world's population contains more young people than ever, with almost half under the age of 25 years. Millions every year enter their 'reproductive age'. Many do this in a safe and controlled way, and manage to balance life goals, education and sexual maturity as essential positive elements of human life. However, in developing countries, many young
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Sexual and reproductive health: Right not privilege

African Journal of Reproductive Health
Despite the prominence of international discourses on sexual and reproductive health and rights, much remains to be done to meet both needs and wants of individuals, couples and families. Socioeconomic disparities and geographic differentials, compounded by inappropriate policies besides resource constraints, hbave hampered the achievements of these ...
Barcelona, Delia, Edouard, Lindsay
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Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

2019
This chapter follows the arguments of women’s health movements surrounding the conflicts between the sexual and reproductive rights of individual women and the social groups to which they belong, on the one hand, and religious dogma and national and international population policies, on the other hand.
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Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, HIV/AIDS, and Public Health

Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health, 2014
Since the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development, sexual and reproductive health and rights have received increased attention. Improving sexual and reproductive health is essential in meeting health goals of nations, including the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Wah-Yun, Low, Yut-Lin, Wong
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Displacement, Human Rights and Sexual and Reproductive Health

2023
Focusing on the flight of women and girls from Venezuela, this book examines the gendered nature of forced displacement across the causes of movement, the circumstances of transit, and the conditions of reception and settlement. It explores the ways in which the failures of protection regimes to be sensitive to displacement’s gendered character affect ...
Cintra De Oliveira Tavares, Natalia, Owen, David, Riggirozzi, Pia   +2 more
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Sexual and Reproductive Health as Rights

2020
The first section opens with an introduction to the fundamental sources of contention around human rights, particularly as they apply to human health. This is followed by an outline of the status of key human rights treaties in the context of sexual and reproductive health in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Achieving sexual and reproductive health and rights through universal health coverage

BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health, 2018
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development was adopted by the United Nations general assembly in September 2015. The agenda encompasses internationally agreed development aspirations – the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The health targets of the SDGs are not merely ambitious in themselves; they are configured with a very considerable range of ...
Jesper Sundewall, Nana K Poku
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Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

2016
Health outcomes in all countries are intrinsically linked to sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). Unfortunately, despite increased international and national commitments towards SRHR, many women and girls still lack access to essential sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services, particularly in low-to-middle-income countries (L-MICs ...
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Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights

2014
The current chapter and the two that follow share a common aim: to examine FBO engagement in various controversial issues at the UN. Chapter 4 engages with the topic of women’s sexual and reproductive health rights (SRHR). The issue is especially controversial as both conservative and liberal FBOs lock horns on this key human rights issue: that is, “a ...
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